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Reception Barbara Pym
Larkin argued that Pym give[s] an unrivalled picture of a small section of middle-class post-war England.
“Reputations Revisited”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3906, 21 Jan. 1977, pp. 66-7.
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Cecil stated that her unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels, especially Excellent Women and A Glass of Blessings, are...
Reception Amy Levy
Forty-three years after AL 's death, her elder sister suggested to Macmillan that they should publish a collection of Levy's stories: Her memory is still alive.
qtd. in
Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press, 2000.
28
Reception Marie Belloc Lowndes
MBL feared her brother would dislike this book because of his unworldliness, his unawareness of his own fame, and his remoteness from contemporary reality. With the public, however, it was an immediate success, and sold...
Reception Sophia Jex-Blake
This book was well received by most American universities, as it represented them in a favourable light compared to the more segregated British ones. The publisher Macmillan thought highly enough of SJB 's work to...
Reception Elizabeth von Arnim
EA 's ex-husband, Francis , reacted to this book with rage and threatened to sue her for libel. In letters from his solicitors to Macmillan , he alleged that the insufferable husband portrayed in the...
Residence Ouida
Ouida and her maid were then reputedly placed in a dogcart and sent eighteen miles in the middle of the night from Sant'Alessio to Viareggio, where Ouida collapsed in the Hotel de Russie ...
Residence Muriel Spark
After leaving the Poetry Society, MS moved to a lodging-house at 1 Vicarage Gate, off Church Street, Kensington, where she lived from 1949 to 1950. In the summer of 1950 she moved again...
Textual Production Mary Lavin
ML closed the first two decades of her publishing career by issuing through Macmillan of New York her Selected Stories.
Krawschak, Ruth, and Regina Mahlke. Mary Lavin: A Checklist. R. Krawschak, 1979.
3
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Chapters from an Unwritten Memoir by ATR appeared in Macmillan's Magazine; they were published in volume form as Chapters from Some Memoirs by Macmillan in 1894.
Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages.
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Textual Production Ethel Wilson
EW related a personal experience that prompted her to write this story: an image of a mother, father, and small daughter in Stanley Park, Vancouver. She said the family presented an image of health...
Textual Production Anne Thackeray Ritchie
ATR wrote a memorial preface to Poems and Music by Anne Evans in 1880. In 1892 she drew on her father 's ideas for a largely anecdotalintroduction to Elizabeth Gaskell 's Cranford.
Callow, Steven D. “A Biographical Sketch of Lady Anne Thackeray Ritchie”. Virginia Woolf Quarterly, Vol.
2
, 1980, pp. 285-7.
293
In...
Textual Production Thomas Hardy
TH dated his Late Lyrics and Earlier, with many other Verses, published this year with Macmillan .
Purdy, Richard Little. Thomas Hardy: A Bibliographical Study. Oxford University Press, 1954.
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Textual Production Margaret Haig Viscountess Rhondda
MHVR published with Macmillan her autobiography, This Was My World.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
5: 167 and n1
Textual Production Mary Anne Barker
MAB published with Macmillan , in London and the USA, her single foray into fiction: Spring Comedies, a book of courtship stories.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
2273 (20 May 1871) 618-9
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Gilderdale, Betty. The Seven Lives of Lady Barker. Canterbury University Press, 2009.
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Textual Production Rosamond Lehmann
RL first used something like this title for a short story, A Hut, A Sea-Grape Tree, which appeared in Macmillan 's annual Winter's Tales for 1956. She began to expand it soon after it was published.
Hastings, Selina. Rosamond Lehmann. Chatto and Windus, 2002.
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